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MY INSIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ELC 2007 [ this is a reost. the 1st was a disgrace, just fixing the spacing only.haha....]]

 

Salamz and gd day 2 all…

 

Parting is such a sweet sorrow…

 

 

PRE CAMP

 

The camp was great. I hadda lots of fun. Mostly by watching these kids struggled to participate in our activities. And I get to know more about my fellow friends.

Basically, my job for this camp was:

 

Assisting Siti Hajar as the Treasurer of Camp B. Helping her in allocating money for the bureau that needed it, balancing the account and the typing up of things.  My role here is a minor one only. She was the one who had been carrying most of   the burden of our budget as I was and still a number intolerant.

 

Helping other bureaus especially the Souvenirs and Materials, along with other facis. Sorting out the never-ending participants' folders and their tags, wrapping up the souvenirs, (not very artsy in this department).

 

Preparing the flashcards for the Word Idol Session, along with Rubi. It was like a factory operator. Auto piloting in tracing, cutting and pasting the cards, all 200++ of them.

Dreading the Battleship session. It was a nightmarish game!

 

 

DURING CAMP

 

I was assigned as the Mini Director of Camp B, along with my friends cooping in at the Study Room of Block B, Aspuri.

My Group was the HARRY POTTER [with Prema & Mira]. I didn't help  them much with the kids. Sorry gurls…

To THE GURLZ:  Mira [soooo material,hehe…], Izzati, Ina, Prema,  Malini and Jeya. Thanx a  million to all of u!!!! Camp B was a  success. All of us had loads of fun.

Game master for Merry Go Round. [Icebreaking session]

Collector of overall marks for the closing ceremony, calculating and deciding the winners for the awards prepared. I missed the final round of the Drama Presentation with other mini directors. 

 

POST CAMP

Helping Hajar closing the account.

Alhamdullillah, we managed to save some for beneficial use later on. Right guys?   Better have balance than suffered from insufficient fund.

 

MY EXPERIENCE

Once upon a time there was a place called the Faculty of 

Education, UTM. This was where the country got its fresh 

supply of uppity teachers, eager and wide-eyes to teach 

the young brats who could outdo them anytime and anywhere.

Then there was this course called the TESL program, which

tragically, the only course there that was exciting and

full of fun people, unlike the mad scientists-to-be,  

running around with their precious experiments a.k.a 

world pollution, and also the maths people with only 

numbers running dripping thru their ears. And or course,

 not forgetting our fellow aspired athletes and ustazs 

and ustazahs which no words could ever describe them.

To fulfill the requirements of graduation, the TESL 

people needed to take this one particular paper 

called the LANG GAMES. 

After huffin' and puffin', toiling away doing the 

appointed tasks assigned by the ever clever and 

professional director, then it was time for the

 people to carry out the main event: the LANG CAMP

 at STAR PUTRA, KULAI.

Braving the early hours and hunger, the people traveled 

to the school by bus. The first session with the participants

 was the make or break session although it was too early 

to tell. Things were a bit awkward at the beginning, 

but the people slowly gaining speed as the day went.

Especially at the  MINI CAMP B, out of the 4 mini

 camps established due to the large number of 

participants, things were great. The facis were 

enjoying themselves along with the participants.  

During the night session, new participants kept

 popping up like mushrooms. But the Camp B people 

handled it well.

On the closing day, the last breakfast together was 

a very special one. The "mee masin" was the culprit

 of the day. Luckily the ever present and caring lecturers:

 Mr. G & Dr. Norazman were kind enough to go out and bought 

the people a variety of buns as substitute, as they 

themselves were unable to stomach the mee!!

All went well and ended well. The closing ceremony was a very 

memorable one in a long…long... time. Too many things happened 

during such a short  time. Everyone must be remembering the bits

and pieces of things there.

I would like to thanx Mr. G, Dr. Norazman, fellow friends

from  CAMP A, KLUANG for their insights, guidance and

cooperation in making BOTH camps successful.  And also the

facis from CAMP B, KULAI for sticking together thru every

thing, swallowing every hardship,misunderstanding, grudge,

back stabbing, some  fun and laughter, the meaning of 

cooperation and getting to know the unknown sides of our

fellow classmates, in the process of making this  happened,

in getting the marks that we were fighting for, some more

than others. Hey, it's a free country, rite?

And lastly, a thousand apologies from me if these are 

to blunt and real to handle. It's the reality, not just

some fairy tales. I'm sure I'll be getting a lot of 

hate mail after this!!! Hahaha…. Do I care? Not a bit.

Only for those who  really worked hard with honest,

down to earth intention just to see the happy and 

appreciative faces of all the participants that we 

have met and loved there. Their faces were priceless.

We have made it, 3SPL!!!! We have succeeded in putting 

smiles and interest in learning English even if it was

temporary. That's more important than the marks that

we'll be getting after this. To MIRA, ZATI, INA, PREMA,

MALINI AND JEYA, thanx for making MINI CAMP B a success,

even if we didn't win the drama thingy. We sure did 

grab others.

We are not anyone's subordinates. We are equals. 

 We Did It!!!!!

~nabilah ismail~

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